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While portents of change echo across the local summer music landscape, one hot-weather classical enterprise that remains impervious to change, justifiably so, is the Grant Park Music Festival. Given the successful marriage of municipal sponsorship and private artistic initiative that makes Grant Park one of the nation's major summer classical music festivals — indeed, it's the only free symphonic summer fest of its kind in the U.S. — no course correction is required. Why fix what ain't broken? Artistic director and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar has put into place a model of symphonic and choral programming that, on a clear, dry evening in downtown...

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While portents of change echo across the local summer music landscape, one hot-weather classical enterprise that remains impervious to change, justifiably so, is the Grant Park Music Festival.
Given the successful marriage of municipal sponsorship and...

The more than 200 solo organ works that bracket the prodigious composing career of Johann Sebastian Bach have long been every organist's Bible. Rare is the organ recital that doesn't include such favorites as the mighty "Toccata and Fugue in D...

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The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned Nico Muhly to compose "Marnie" for its 2019-20 season, based on Winston Graham's 1961 novel that was adapted into an Alfred Hitchcock movie. The plot centers on a woman who embezzles from her employer,...

Tom Hiddleston feels most alive when he's performing Shakespeare.
"I don't know why I do," said the 32-year-old British actor, whose recent video with Cookie Monster on the importance of waiting was an Internet sensation.
"But it does...

Helen Mirren keeps winning awards for playing Queen Elizabeth II.
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